Friday, 27 January 2017

Chocolate Baroque Challenge January 2017

As we are approaching St Valentine's Day, I decided to incorporate the beautiful palette with a 'love' themed card, not only that, there's not a single 3D element in sight!!! The biggest challenge was to select the stamps to use and on looking through my selection of CB stamps, I settled on the floral butterfly, something I've wished to use for some time. The entire image is created by stamping and masking, with a bit of shading to create the illusion of an 'add-on' butterfly.

My special Christmas present was a complete set of Polychromos and boy! did I have fun exploring. I laid down the base with Inktense pencils, taking colour straight from the pencil tip with a damp paintbrush (No 6) then added the Polychromos over.

The sentiment is repeated stamping of Love from the Mackintosh 'With Love' phrase.

Top Tip - I found it easier to ink the words, cover up 'With' with a piece of Scotch Magic Tape, stamp 'Love,' remove the tape and repeat to suit. (I used a new piece of tape each time to prevent smudging.)

1.Fold a piece of 8ins x 8ins card in half and
draw half a heart shape against the fold. Cut out the centre and set aside. The
square with the heart centre is required for this card.

2.Place the heart square over another 8ins x 8ins
square and tape down around the edges with low tack masking tape.

3.Using Archival Black, ink the butterfly stamp
and stamp in the centre of the heart aperture.

4.Re-ink stamp and stamp onto large sticky notes.
Cut out and reserve to use as a mask. Place over stamped image.

5.Ink the large leaf from the set, stamp a number
of images on sticky notes and cut out. Stamp a leaf on the edge of the
butterfly, mask then re-ink and stamp again. Repeat until there is a leafy
border around the perimeter of the butterfly.

6.Repeat (5) with a smaller leaf from and stamp
and mask as before, whilst so doing, creating a heart shape.

7.Using a light, dilute pink from the Inktense
box, paint in the exposed, un-inked heart shape.

8.Remove heart aperture.

9.Colour butterfly using deep pink from the
Inktense set in a variety of colour strengths.

10.Colour the inner, larger leaves with a darker
green Inktense and the outer, smaller leaves with a softer, lighter green.

11.Continue colouring these images with
Polychromos.

12.Doodle a border around the heart’s perimeter
with a fine black pen.

13.Trim card to suit and edge with a black Sharpie
pen and mount onto an 8ins x 8ins card blank.

14.Stamp ‘Love’ repeatedly along a strip of card.
Edge with Sharpie and attach below the image.

The photos are taken on three different backgrounds - you can decide which one you prefer! Meantime, thank you for reading my blog; I do hope you will visit again.

9 comments:

A beautiful card Shelagh, fabulous design. Great use of shading to create a 3D effect. I love my Polychromas, and Inktense too. Enjoy using yours. Thanks for your entry into the Chocolate Baroque Challenge Judith xx

Thank you, Judith. I decided it was about time I made a straight forward card for once! There has been a lt of sadness about recently and it was a joy to make something a bit more colourful. Thanks again.Shelagh. ;~}

What a wonderful creation, the layers are fab and your colouring in is superb, I love my Inktense pencils they give such a lovely effect. My favourite sentiment Stamps too, thank you for Joining in Chocolate Baroque colour challenge, good luck, Zoe DT member xx